OPL Clergy Wives Ministry Awarded Grant from the Elsie Skvir Ganister Foundation Fund
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OPL Clergy Wives Ministry Awarded Grant from the Elsie Skvir Ganister Foundation Fund
The Orthodox Church in America’s Office of Pastoral Life has announced that its Clergy Wives Ministry has been awarded a grant of $3,000 from the Elsie Skvir Ganister Foundation Fund at the…
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New Video: Historic Concelebration of Metropolitan Tikhon and Archbishop Stefan
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Today we commemorate Saint John the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Novgorod
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Saint John the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Novgorod
Saint John, Archbishop of Novgorod, was born at Novgorod of the pious parents Nicholas and Christina. He passed his childhood in quiet and peaceful surroundings. After the death of their parents, John and his brother Gabriel decided to establish a small…
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New Video: Historic Concelebration of Metropolitan Tikhon and Archbishop Stefan
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Today we commemorate the Nativity of the Theotokos
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Saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/09/08
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The Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary
The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary: The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born at a time when people had reached such a degree of moral decay that it seemed altogether impossible to restore them. People often said that God must come…
Reflection from His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon on the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos
Last week we celebrated the beginning of a new ecclesiastical year; now we mark the first great feast of the year, the birth of the Theotokos. The outer proclamation of the Gospel began with Christ’s Forerunner, whose conception we celebrate later this month, but the inner mystery of the Church, the Incarnation of the Word, begins with the Theotokos. Through her as through a gate that remained shut, the Son of God has entered into his creation, and henceforth we shall always know him as the Son of Mary. Though her role in our salvation was unique and unrepeatable, it does provide for us a model and a goal. With respect to the goal, we recognize that she bore Christ in her womb so that we could give birth to Christ in our lives and our hearts. ...
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Last week we celebrated the beginning of a new ecclesiastical year; now we mark the first great feast of the year, the birth of the Theotokos. The outer proclamation of the Gospel began with Christ’s Forerunner, whose conception we celebrate later this month, but the inner mystery of the Church, the Incarnation of the Word, begins with the Theotokos. Through her as through a gate that remained shut, the Son of God has entered into his creation, and henceforth we shall always know him as the Son of Mary. Though her role in our salvation was unique and unrepeatable, it does provide for us a model and a goal. With respect to the goal, we recognize that she bore Christ in her womb so that we could give birth to Christ in our lives and our hearts. ...
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Today we commemorate Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna
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More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/09/09
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Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna
Saint Joachim, the son of Barpathir, was of the tribe of Judah, and was a descendant of King David, to whom God had revealed that the Savior of the world would be born from his seed. Saint Anna was the daughter of Matthan the priest, who was of the tribe…
Today we commemorate Venerable Paul the Obedient, of the Kiev Caves
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Venerable Paul the Obedient, of the Kiev Caves
Saint Paul the Obedient was an ascetic in the Far Caves at Kiev. Upon assuming the monastic schema at the monastery of the Caves, the monk underwent very burdensome obediences without a murmur, on which the monastery’s Superior had sent him. He was never…
On Sunday, September 7 and Monday, September 8, 2025 His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon made an archpastoral visit to Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NY, to celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos with the seminary community. This marked the first primatial visit of the new academic year. ...
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Today we commemorate Saint Euphrosynus the Cook, of Alexandria
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Saint Euphrosynos the Cook of Alexandria
Our Holy Father Euphrosynos (Euphrósynos)1 the Cook was born into a peasant family, and had no schooling, but he was truly devout and faithful. As an adult, he became a cook, and was able to save money out of his expenses by depriving himself, but only…
Today we commemorate Hieromartyr Autonomus, Bishop in Italy
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More saints commemorated today: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/09/12
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Hieromartyr Autonomus, Bishop in Italy
The Hieromartyr Autonomus was a bishop in Italy. During the time of the persecution against Christians under the emperor Diocletian (284-305), Saint Autonomus left his own country and resettled in Bithynia, in the locality of Soreus with a man named Cornelius.…